Pastor's Corner

PASTOR TIMOTHY R. DE BEAUMONT SR. GATE WAY TO LIFE MINISTRIES, VICTORVILLE

Timothy R. De Beaumont Sr. is the pastor at Gate Way to Life Ministries in Victorville. The church Web site is www.gatewaychapel.com

If I were to ask you as a Christian why you reject gay marriage your answer might be something like, "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" How true that is. And if I asked why God instituted marriage between one man and one woman? Your answer would be the typical; "To reproduce and populate the world." That's true as well. But what if there's more to it and an unseen conspiracy to defeat the true meaning behind marriage between one man and one woman.

As we study scripture we find it teaches us that the meaning of marriage and its representation is that of Jesus Christ and His church. His church being made up of true "Born Again" believers from around the world and from all non- and denominational organizations. Jesus is known as the Bride Groom and we, His church, are known as His Bride. The time will come when Jesus will return for His church (us) and we will be joined together with Christ at the "marriage supper of the Lamb" found in Revelation 19:6-9.

The Bible testifies of Jesus Christ from cover to cover, but what of this 'unseen conspiracy' I spoke of? We live in a two-sided world: one we see and one we can't. In the unseen world, angels and demons do battle for the souls of mankind and just as God is, so is His and our enemy, the devil, Satan, Lucifer. It is one of Satan's goals to pervert anything God has ordained or instituted and this would of course include marriage. What better perversion than to have two men or two women, creations of God, marry under the "guise of love" instead of obedience to God and His word. As the devil laughs at us humans as some say, "It's their life and after all they love each other." Or "They're not hurting anyone." Well, it didn't go so well with Sodom and Gomorrah or any men, women or children, who were in those cities as God rightly judged their sin.

As we read Genesis 2:24, "Therefore, a man (singular) shall leave his father and mother (male and female) and be joined to his wife (singular) and they shall become one flesh."

We as Californians spoke out in 2000 with Prop 22 and have now been forced to take further action by amending our state's Constitution, keeping marriage as it was intended. Vote 'Yes' on Prop 8.